Book · by Joan Didion
How many pages is Play It as It Lays?
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion has a median of 214 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 213 to 214 pages.
How long will Play It as It Lays take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 37 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Paperback | 214 | OL7424625M |
| 1990 | The Noonday Press | – | 213 | OL40259245M |
| 1990 | The Noonday Press Farrar ; Straus & Giroux | – | 213 | OL52438652M |
| 1990 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | – | 214 | OL7424229M |
| 1979 | Simon and Schuster | – | 214 | OL4736379M |
| 1978 | Pocket Books | – | 213 | OL26886085M |
| 1973 | Penguin | – | 168 | OL14945014M |
| 1972 | Bantam | – | 226 | OL48599099M |
| 1971 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | – | 214 | OL14986827M |
| 1971 | Bantam Books | – | 213 | OL24240438M |
| 1971 | Bantam Books | – | 213 | OL16076012M |
| 1970 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | – | 214 | OL24927567M |
| 1970 | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | – | 214 | OL4451405M |
| – | Penguin | – | 168 | OL20870465M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Play It as It Lays?
- About 214 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 168 to 226 pages.
- How long does it take to read Play It as It Lays?
- About 3 h 46 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is Play It as It Lays?
- Roughly 59,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).